The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 30
Before you are permitted to take the Maid of Beauty you must plough the field of serpents that lies in the barren lands beyond the forest of pine.
Who acts: you, serpents · What happens: permit, take, plough, lie · To what, where: you, Maid, field, barren lands
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, serpents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 permitted | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 permitted | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permitted | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maid | det |
| 8 | Maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Beauty | case |
| 10 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plough | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 plough | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 plough | aux |
| 13 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Maid | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plough | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 serpents | case |
| 17 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 field | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lies | nsubj |
| 19 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 serpents | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lands | det |
| 22 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lands | amod |
| 23 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lies | obl |
| 24 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lands | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pine | case |
| 28 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | present · passive | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Maid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument maid=Destination | |||||
| 3 | plough | must | you | the field of serpents | of Beauty | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Theme of beauty=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | lie | present | serpents | the barren lands beyond the forest of pine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in land=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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